Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-10
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

1t is reported that the drouth is so
severe in Southern Wisconsin that it is little
more than black desert. The condition of
the ground can scarcely be imagined.
Every bit of moisture and sap has been
burnt out OF grass, bushes and all kinds OF
vegetation, and the earth is 80 dry that
even the roots OF the stubble in recently
moved heids are burning over hundreds
upon hundreds of acres. Sloughs and
| weedy streams, which have never ceased
running before, are dried up, and the air is
filled with the smoke Of the burning weeds,
and even bog land, while the frame farm
houses and barns are so thoroughly baked
that the application of a lighted match tC
the outside of many OF them would speedily
reduce the structures to ashes. Scores Of
wells, fed by springs, have gone dry, and
the. farmers in many instances are COM
household purposes.
About S a. m. Wednesday morning
as large force of men were at work upon
the ruins Of the burned st. Anthony eleva-
tor, Minneapolis, Mimi, when a section of
the wall of the annex, IA feet high and Is
feet long fell over crushing six men under
intensely hot, and though water was used
mon were severely burned in the effort to
handle them and it was ten minutes before
the first body could be reached
The victims were Gus. Brown, married. age
g. sm1ss ~: Emerson snd1a sipgle sge r. Thos
single, age "A, one man unknown. The wall
| had been considered pretty SAFE but was
suddenly crowded out by pressure from the
wheat.
Several Republican county conven-
tions were held in Iowa Saturday. The Re-
publicans of Wayne county instructed for
! otr, Pol,i
the delegation is divided as to state Super
intendent The senatorial delegation is SOL
id for COL Duncan for state senator. The
Greene county Republicans did notinstruct.
Speaker Head was unanimously renomina-
ted for representative; The Dickson county
senator, and elected delegates to the state
convention favorable to Robinson for SUI
preme judge. In Palo Alto county the
Republican convention was we'll attended,
port none but farmers for the legislature.
August Shulz, who burned the barn
offarmer King, in Waverly, Coddington, Co.,
OAK, recently, under the hallucination
that King had. wronged him regarding
land claim, appeared at Kings, at mid
night on the 3rd, calling him out with the
declaration he had come to kill him. King
won't out armed with his gun and Shulz
| sprang on him with a club. King fred
twice, when his assailant disappeared, and
was found the next afternoon by section
hands of the railroad in dying state. He
made an antemortem statement charging
himself with burning the barn and the
intention to kill King and burn his house.
The Chicago Farmers Review this
week, says of tho crops: winter wheat,
Illinois, average, 1873 bushels; Tennessee
counties IA 3-5 bushels; bushels: ID Ohio
h11ch "icnorcSv
173ss bushels; spring wheat, II Iowa counties
10 rs bushels, S Minnesota counties, Il
bushels: II Dakota counties, Is is bushels:
corn, % Illinois Is per cent; Wisconsin 81
per cent; Iowa, Il counties 10S per cent
Minnesota 6 counties, 90 per cent: Dakota,
10 counties ITO per cent; oats, 6 Wisconsin
counties S19 bushels; 16 Iowa counties 80
bushels; Minnesota counties, 951s bushels:
10 Dakota counties, 81 bushels
Gen. Hamilton, prominent citizen,
classmate at West Point and life long
Milwaukee, Wis, on the 4th He resigned
after graduation and settled at Fond du
Lac. He went out as colonel of the Third
regiment and soon won his brigadiership;
served with Grant below Cairo and at
generalship on Grants recommendation.
President Grant in 1870 appointed him
United States marshal for Wisconsin. He
! served two terms.
| A son of ex-Attorney General
Wayne McVsagh is to marry daughter Of
Gen. Hammond, who now lives in Mime
sofa, and who was in the volunteer army
in the war. The young mans mother is
daughter of ex-senator Simon Cameron Of
Pennsylvania, and sister of Senator Don
Cameron. The young lady's mother is the
daughter of the late Nathaniel Wolf of
Louisville, KY, one of the most active men
as a member of the state legislature in 1851
in keeping the state in the Union.
A conference of Roman Catholic Bish-